JAY – Eighty-seven percent of the senior class went to school Saturday to make up one of three days they need to keep their graduation on June 5.
Seniors were six days short of the 170-day state instructional requirement due to snow-day cancellations. After a teacher workshop was postponed until the end of the year and a two-day waiver from the state was granted, Jay High School seniors agreed to three abbreviated “Senior Saturdays” – April 30, May 21 and June 4.
The seniors needed a majority of the 84 class members, Principal Peter Brown said, for the day to be considered an instructional day. Seventy-three students attended Saturday’s session. They also need a majority at the remaining two dates.
He was “impressed” and “extremely happy,” Brown said, with the number of students who came to the Saturday session, but said he knew the students would do what they needed to do.
A number of seniors came to him, Brown said, and told him they learned some things during the session, noting that “it wasn’t a waste of time” as some expected.
Senior Class President Kasey Simoneau said seniors plan to spend their Project Graduation at Camp Wekeela on Little Bear Pond in Hartford. Students had planned to take a cruise on the Scotia Prince but the line canceled its 2005 schedule for cruises from Portland. Most of the seniors had planned to attend.
“We still have a lot of people planning on going, and we’re pumped about that,” she said.
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